Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Amazon Affiliate Trial and Error

Hi All,

Without going into a long and detailed explanation, browsers have evolved a lot, so much so that some them are now putting in automatic ad-blockers which, among other things, blocks my Amazon Affiliate banner (top right banner, right below the ad for Curse of the High IQ). I think I programmed a work around, but won't know for sure until I can verify some purchases.

So if you are one of those kind souls who does all their shopping through my banner, please let me know if/what/when you purchased something so I can see if the new banner I programmed is capturing and recording your sales.

Text links don't get blocked. Perhaps you could include one as a fallback.

That said, your image link is getting through 5x5. So are banners for your books and such. Ad blockers mostly target the big ad networks; if you serve up your own advertising from your own server and you don't use obvious keywords like "ad" or "banner" in the path to your images, they'll most likely get through the average ad blocker.